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Military History
Interviews with scholars of military history about their new books.
March 18, 2026
Our Age of War
Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, has been writing about war for decades, including in his book Bombing to Win: Air Pow…
March 15, 2026
Russian Military Thought
The development of the Russian military's strategic thought is an understudied and thus misunderstood subject in the West. Strategy in Russia encompas…
March 15, 2026
Uncivil Guard
In Uncivil Guard: Policing, Military Culture, and the Coming of the Spanish Civil War (Louisiana State UP, 2025), Foster Chamberlin evaluates the role…
March 14, 2026
Coercing Syria on Chemical Weapons
In 2012, US President Barack Obama stated that the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons on its population would cross a red line that would req…
March 12, 2026
Understanding Iran Under Attack
Eleven days into the attack on Iran by the United States and Israel, starting on Feb. 28, 2026, I speak with Vali Nasr, a renowned analyst of Iran. He…
March 6, 2026
Standardizing Empire
Standardizing Empire: The US Military, Korea, and the Origins of Military-Industrial Capitalism (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026) by Dr. Patrick Chung trac…
March 3, 2026
Wheat at War
The battlefields were not the only places that threatened death during World War I. As conflict raged on and supply lines tightened, the allied powers…
March 1, 2026
Fleeced
Not everything about wool is warm and fuzzy. Wool, for millennia the cold climate textile fiber, has a long relationship to war, both in terms of supp…
March 1, 2026
Francisco de Saavedra's American Revolutionary War, The Spanish Contribution to the Battle of Yorktown
Francisco de Saavedra’s American Revolutionary War: The Spanish Contribution to the Battle of Yorktown (James Giesler, 2025) by James Giesler is the s…
February 28, 2026
Making War Safe for Capitalism
Making War Safe for Capitalism: The World Bank, IMF, and the Conflict in Ukraine (Bristol UP, 2025) by Dr. Elliot Dolan-Evans examines the impact of W…
February 27, 2026
A Nation Unraveled
During the American Civil War, clothing became central to the ways people waged war and experienced its cost. Through the clothes they made, wore, men…
February 23, 2026
American Masterpiece
Wednesday, February 18—Called “the greatest American diary of the nineteenth century,” the journal of the patrician New York City lawyer George Temple…
February 14, 2026
Multidomain Operations
In Multidomain Operations: The Pursuit of Battlefield Dominance in the 21st Century (Howgate Publishing Limited, 2026), Amos Fox and Franz-Stefan Gady…
February 14, 2026
The Peasants' War
During the First World War, Russia relied on the mass mobilization of its peasant population. In the summer of 1914, approximately four million peasan…
February 13, 2026
Streetscapes of War and Revolution
Prague entered the First World War as the third city of the Habsburg empire, but emerged in 1918 as the capital of a brand new nation-state, Czechoslo…
February 11, 2026
World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence
Ask an American intelligence officer to tell you when the country started doing modern intelligence and you will probably hear something about the Off…
February 7, 2026
Samurai
Samurai (British Museum Press 2026) is a richly illustrated volume co-authored by exhibition curator Rosina Buckland (British Museum) and Oleg Benesch…
February 3, 2026
Blitzkrieg and the Russian Art of War
A cutting-edge investigation of how Russia makes war. Russian strategy in the twenty-first century has been described in terms of 'hybrid' warfare, a…
February 1, 2026
The Revolutionary War
Military historian Jeremy Black follows his engagement with the American Civil War (St. Augustine's Press, 2025) with a review of the Revolutionary Wa…
January 31, 2026
Iron and Blood
German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the…